Francis Xavier Dercum
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Francis Xavier Dercum was an American physician who first described the disease Adiposis dolorosa . He was a noted neurologist and specialised in treating nervous and mental disorders. He treated President Woodrow Wilson in 1919, and Ima Hogg for three years, beginning in 1918.
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- THREE CASES OF A HITHERTO UNCLASSIFIED AFFECTION RESEMBLING IN ITS GROSSER ASPECTS OBESITY, BUT ASSOCIATED WITH SPECIAL NERVOUS SYMPTOMS—ADIPOSIS DOLOROSA (1892) (78)
- REPORT OF THREE CASES OF BERI-BERI (1895) (17)
- Clinical Manual of Mental Diseases (1898) (14)
- A CASE OF MULTIPLE CEREBROSPINAL SCLEROSIS, PRESENTING UNUSUAL SYMPTOMS SUGGESTING PARESIS: CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FINDINGS (1912) (12)
- Rest, suggestion, and other therapeutic measures in nervous and mental diseases (1918) (10)
- The Lateral Sensory Apparatus of Fishes (10)
- THE FUNCTIONS OF THE CEREBROSPINAL FLUID: WITH A SPECIAL CONSIDERATION OF SPINAL DRAINAGE AND OF INTRASPINAL INJECTIONS OF ARSPHENAMIZED SERUM (1920) (10)
- THE THALAMUS IN THE PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY OF THE MIND (1925) (9)
- A CASE OF SYRINGOMYELIA, LIMITED TO ONE POSTERIOR HORN IN THE CERVICAL REGION, WITH ARTHROPATHY OF THE SHOULDER-JOINT AND ASCENDING DEGENERATION IN THE PYRAMIDAL TRACTS (1896) (7)
- A CASE OF AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS PRESENTING BULBAR SYMPTOMS, WITH NECROPSY AND MICROSCOPICAL EXAMINATION (1899) (7)
- SO-CALLED SHELL SHOCK: THE REMEDY (6)
- The Biology of the Internal Secretions (1926) (6)
- AUTOPSY IN A CASE OF ADIPOSIS DOLOROSA, WITH MICROSCOPICAL EXAMINATION (1900) (6)
- On the Morphology of the Semicircular Canals (1879) (6)
- CHOLESTEATOMA, WITH REMARKS ON THE ORIGIN OF THE TUMOR (1888) (5)
- A REPORT OF THREE PRE-FRONTAL TUMORS (1910) (4)
- INTRAMEDULLARY TUMOR OF CERVICAL CORD. DIAGNOSIS. REMOVAL IN TWO–STAGE OPERATION; GRADUAL IMPROVEMENT (1916) (4)
- TABES ASSOCIATED WITH TROPHIC CHANGES SUGGESTING ACROMEGALY (1908) (3)
- TWO CASES OF PRIMARY NEUROTIC ATROPHY BEARING A RESEMBLANCE TO MULTIPLE NEURITIS (1900) (3)
- PROBABLE DIAGNOSIS OF TUMOR OF THE PINEAL GLAND (1916) (3)
- TUMOR OF THE THALAMUS, MORE ESPECIALLY OF THE PULVINAR, PRESENTING WER NICKES PUPIL REACTION (1890) (3)
- TUMOR OF THE FRONTAL LOBES WITH SYMPTOMS SIMULATING PARESIS (1908) (3)
- EPILEPSY: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO TREATMENT (1916) (2)
- NEURASTHENIA ESSENTIALIS AND NEURASTHENIA SYMPTOMATICA. (1898) (2)
- AN EVALUATION OF THE PSYCHOGENIC FACTORS IN THE ETIOLOGY OF MENTAL DISEASE: INCLUDING A REVIEW OF PSYCHANALYSIS (1914) (2)
- TWO CASES OF “RAILWAY-SPINE” WITH AUTOPSY (1895) (2)
- AN EXAMINATION OF THE DUCTLESS GLANDS IN EIGHT CASES OF DEMENTIA PRAECOX (1913) (2)
- The Physiology of Mind: An Interpretation Based on Biological, Morphological, Physical, and Chemical Considerations (1927) (2)
- ON THE ARTIFICIAL INDUCTION OF CONVULSIVE SEIZURES (1884) (2)
- THE FUNCTIONS OF THE NEURON (1896) (2)
- A CASE OF MULTIPLE CEREBROSPINAL SCLEROSIS: WITH REMARKS UPON THE PATHOGENESIS OF THE AFFECTION (1905) (2)
- The Sensory Organs-Suggestions with a View to Generalization (1878) (2)
- NOTE ON A CHINESE BRAIN (1892) (2)
- A CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION OF INSANITY (1901) (2)
- NEURASTHENIC-NEUROPATHIC INSANITY (1913) (2)
- THE INTERPRETATION OF APHASIA (1909) (2)
- ON SCLERODERMA AND CHRONIC RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (1898) (2)
- TWO CASES OF AKROMEGALY, WITH REMARKS ON THE PATHOLOGY OF THE AFFECTION (1893) (2)
- TUMOR OF THE OBLONGATA PRESENTING ATAXIA AND ASTEREOGNOSIS AS THE MOST PROMINENT EARLY SYMPTOMS (1899) (2)
- STUDIES IN ASTEREOGNOSIS. SUMMARY OF THE RESULTS OBTAINED IN ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN MISCELLANEOUS CASES OF NERVOUS DISEASE (1900) (2)
- DIAGNOSIS AND LOCALIZATION OF BRAIN ABSCESS (1912) (2)
- A CASE OF ANOMALOUS TORSION SPASM (1917) (2)
- Multiple Cerebrospinal Sclerosis (1914) (1)
- NOTE ON A CASE OF ADIPOSIS DOLOROSA IN WHICH THERE WAS PRESENT ALSO SPASTICITY AND CONTRACTURE INVOLVING THE EXTREMITIES (1909) (1)
- MOTOR APHASIA WITHOUT LESION OF THE THIRD FRONTAL CONVOLUTION (1)
- A CASE PRESENTING RIGHT‐SIDED HEMIPLEGIA WITH HEMIANESTHESIA, RIGHT HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPSIA, JARGON APHASIA, WERNICKE'S PUPILLARY REACTION SIGN AND NEURITIC PAIN IN THE ARM OF THE PARALYZED SIDE (1900) (1)
- THE INTERPRETATION OF THE NEUROSES: BIOLOGIC, PATHOLOGIC AND CLINICAL CONSIDERATIONS, TOGETHER WITH AN EVALUATION OF THE PSYCHOGENIC FACTORS (1917) (1)
- TUMOR CAUSING BRACHIAL AND SYMPATHETIC PALSIES (1916) (1)
- THE EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF PARESIS (1902) (1)
- LESION OF LEFT LENTICULAR NUCLEUS AND ADJACENT STRUCTURES APHASIA, BOTH "MOTOR" AND "SENSORY." SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FINDINGS FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF APHASIA * (1924) (1)
- SARCOMA OF THE CEREBELLUM; SARCOMATOUS INFILTRATION OF THE SPINAL PIA (1906) (1)
- THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IN THE LIGHT OF EINSTEIN'S INTERPRETATION OF ENERGY: WITH A BRIEF CONSIDERATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF RELATIVITY (1925) (1)
- A DESCRIPTION OF TWO CHINESE BRAINS (1889) (1)
- THREE CASES OF THE FAMILY TYPE OF CEREBRAL DIPLEGIA (1897) (1)
- THE TEACHING OF INSANITY (1913) (1)
- ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF OPTIC NEURITIS, BLINDNESS, DEAFNESS AND THE KNEEJERK IN CEREBELLAR DISEASE (1893) (1)
- TWO CASES OF INGRAVESCENT CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE TREATED BY LIGATION OF THE COMMON CAROTID ARTERY (1894) (1)
- ON THE FUNCTIONS OF THE NEURON, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE PHENOMENA PRESENTED BY HYSTERIA AND HYPNOTISM (1896) (1)
- THE RÔLE OF DREAMS IN ETIOLOGY (1911) (1)
- THYROID METASTASIS TO THE SPINE (1906) (1)
- TUMOR INVOLVING THE BASE AND SUBSTANCE OF THE LEFT TEMPORAL LOBE (1912) (1)
- A Brief Synopsis of the Various Points Involved in the Coarse Examination of the Brain and Spinal Cord (1887) (0)
- A CASE OF UNUSUAL FORM OF MYOTONIA (1916) (0)
- A Clearing, House of Human Knowledge (1929) (0)
- Group II--Melancholia, mania, circular insanity (melancholia-mania; manic-depressive insanity). (0)
- METABOLISM IN INSANITY (1916) (0)
- THE BACK IN RAILWAY SPINE (1891) (0)
- A CASE OF ATAXIA OF IRREGULAR TYPE FOLLOWING INJURY (1891) (0)
- First annual report of Pathological Department of Norristown State Hospital (0)
- Mental diseases not ordinarily included under insanity. (0)
- A CASE OF “RAILWAY BACK.” (1892) (0)
- A LARGE SUBCORTICAL TUMOR OF THE OCCIPITAL LOBE, PRODUCING RIGHT-SIDED HEMIPARESIS AND RIGHT HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPSIA, TOGETHER WITH WERNICKE'S PUPILLARY INACTION SIGN AS A DISTANCE SYMPTOM (1901) (0)
- FACTS AND DEDUCTIONS BEARING ON THE ACTION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. (1886) (0)
- Group III--The heboid-paranoid affections (dementia præcox; paranoia). (0)
- The clinical forms of mental disease related to the somatic affections. (0)
- TUMOR OF THE RIGHT INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE. OPERATION; PARTIAL REMOVAL; IMPROVEMENT (1909) (0)
- A CASE OF COLLOID DISEASE OF THE BLOOD VESSELS OF THE SPINAL CORD (1903) (0)
- A CASE OF ASTEREOGNOSIS RESULTING FROM INJURY OF THE BRAIN IN THE SUPERIOR PARIETAL REGION.1 (1901) (0)
- The psychologic interpretation of the symptoms. (0)
- A CASE OF SUBCORTICAL OR PURE MOTOR APHASIA (DEJERINE) OR ANARTHRIA (MARIE) (1914) (0)
- ENORMOUS TUMOR OF THE POSTERO-PARIETAL REGION, WEIGHING OVER HALF A POUND; ABSENCE OF LOCALIZING SYMPTOMS UNTIL LATE IN THE HISTORY OF THE CASE; OPERATION; DEATH (1903) (0)
- POST-LITIGATION RESULTS IN CASES OF SO-CALLED TRAUMATIC NEUROSIS, TRAUMATIC NEURASTHENIA, TRAUMATIC HYSTERIA: NATURE OF THE AFFECTION TO WHICH THESE TERMS ARE APPLIED (1914) (0)
- LETTERS FROM PHYSICIANS (1894) (0)
- SARCOMATOSIS OF THE CERVICAL DURA SUGGESTING HYPERTROPHIC CERVICAL PACHYMENINGITIS (1910) (0)
- HYSTERIA AND ACCIDENT COMPENSATION, NATURE OF HYSTERIA AND THE LESION OF THE POST-LITIGATION RESULTS (1916) (0)
- A CASE OF ASTEREOGNOS1S RESULTING FROM INJURY OF THE BRAIN IN THE SUPERIOR PARIETAL REGION (1901) (0)
- Mental disease as related to age. (0)
- The Treatment of Headaches (1891) (0)
- NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASES AND THE NEWER PATHOLOGY (1915) (0)
- A CASE OF SYRINGOMYELIA (1894) (0)
- Group IV--The neurasthenic-neuropathic disorders (psychasthenia). (0)
- ASSOCIATION AND REENFORCEMENT IN APHASIA (1909) (0)
- THE HEBOID-PARANOID GROUP (DEMENTIA PRÆCOX).—CLINICAL RELATIONS AND NATURE (1906) (0)
- ON OIL OF GAULTHERIA AND SALOL IN RHEUMATISM OF NERVES AND MUSCLES (1888) (0)
- VISCERAL SYMPTOMATOLOGY IN NERVOUS DISEASES: GRAVE DANGERS OF MISINTERPRETATION AND OF UNNECESSARY SURGICAL INTERVENTION (1918) (0)
- PHILADELPHIA NEUROLOGICAL SOCIETY: A CASE OF MULTIPLE CEREBRO???SPINAL SCLEROSIS SIMULATING SPINAL SYPHILIS (1911) (0)
- AN INDICATION FOR TREATMENT IN HEMIFACIAL ATROPHY (1892) (0)
- A CASE OF URÆMIC CONVULSIONS, FOLLOWED BY PERSISTENT HEMI-ATAXIA (1896) (0)
- HYSTERIA, ITS NATURE AND ITS POSITION IN NOSOLOGY. (1907) (0)
- Insanity by contagion. (0)
- Instruction in Psychiatry. (1904) (0)
- PHILADELPHIA NEUROLOGICAL SOCIETY (1899) (0)
- TWO CASES OF ASTASIA-ABASIA (1909) (0)
- IV. Further Report of Results obtained in a case of Removal of the Posterior Wall of the Spinal Canal and Opening of the Dura Mater Spinalis in the upper Dorsal Region for Paraplegia. (1890) (0)
- ELEMENTS OF PSYCHIATRIC PROGNOSIS (1908) (0)
- AN UNUSUAL CASE OF PALSY OF THE SEVENTH, THE MOTOR BRANCH OF THE FIFTH, THE FOURTH AND THE SIXTH NERVES, OF SUDDEN ONSET, ASSOCIATED WITH SENSORY LOSSES SUGGESTING A SYRINGOMYELIC SYMPTOM GROUP; POLIOENCEPHALITIS HAEMORRHAGICA (1912) (0)
- THE TOOLS OF OUR TRADE: THE INDICATIONS PRESENTED BY MENTAL DISEASE AND THE MEANS AT OUR COMMAND FOR MEETING THEM (1915) (0)
- REPORT OF A CASE OF TUMOR OF THE FRONTAL LOBE (1902) (0)
- A CASE OF PRIMARY NEUROTIC ATROPHY (1897) (0)
- A clinical manual of mental diseases (2nd ed., rev.). (0)
- Clinical Manual of Mental Diseases (1897) (0)
- A Case of Douloureux of Twelve Years’ Standing Treated by Large Doses of the Salicylates, with Marked Success (1887) (0)
- A CASE OF APHASIA, BOTH “MOTOR” AND “SENSORY,” WITH INTEGRITY OF THE LEFT THIRD FRONTAL CONVOLUTION: LESION IN THE LENTICULAR ZONE AND INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS (1907) (0)
- LOWER ARM TYPE OF BRACHIAL PALSY; KLUMPKE SYMPTOM GROUP (1908) (0)
- Progress in Medicine (1895) (0)
- ON SPASTIC PARALYSIS AND SYPHILIS OF THE CORD (0)
- A CASE OF TRAUMA OF THE FOOT OF THE SECOND FRONTAL CONVOLUTION, FOLLOWED BY ATAXIA, NYSTAGMUS AND EPILEPSY (1905) (0)
- MYSTIC MEDICINE (1904) (0)
- Group V--The dementias. (0)
- Modern Science Disclosing the Mysteries of Nature (1929) (0)
- Group I--Delirium, confusion, stupor. (0)
- The Brain of the Late Dr. John Herr Musser (1912) (0)
- SCLERODERMA (1896) (0)
- A New Cultural Center (1929) (0)
- REPORT OF A CASE OF CHRONIC HEMIANESTHESIA OF OVER EIGHT YEARS?? DURATION, RESULTING FROM DESTRUCTION OF THE CARREFOUR SENSITIF AND LENTICULAR NUCLEUS (1902) (0)
- PHILADELPHIA NEUROLOGICAL SOCIETY. April 25th, 1898 (1898) (0)
- RECENT ASPECTS OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL PATHOLOGY (1915) (0)
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